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Plastic Surgery Gets a New Look

Plastic Surgery Gets a New Look 04/26/2004 06:53 PM
Drastic is out. Subtle is in. And these days, face-lifts are more fill than cut.

Plastic surgery 'is trivialised'

Plastic surgery 'is trivialised' 03/17/2005 02:54 AM
The obsession with cosmetic surgery is obscuring the real work plastic surgeons do, leading surgeons say.

40% of teens want plastic surgery

40% of teens want plastic surgery 01/05/2005 06:41 AM
Four in ten teenage girls have considered plastic surgery, a survey by Bliss magazine says.

Plastic surgery pre-viz app Plasticom
1.0 ships

Plastic surgery pre-viz app Plasticom
1.0 ships 08/02/2004 03:12 PM
Belgian developer eX-cinder has announced the release of Plasticom 1.0, which was originally available as a Beta release, as MacCe ntral reported in January. The software allows a plastic surgeon to import digital images of a patient and manipulate them with warp curves that are placed on the pictures and reshaped. Thanks to Plasticom's use of the Morph Age 2.0 engine, the results are rendered in real-time, and the software can export the final version to a TIFF, PNG or JPEG file. The initial images can be imported from TIFF, PDF, GIF, JPEG and other formats. Plasticom 1.0 requires Mac OS X v10.3 and sells for US$150, with site licenses available for $600.

China's first Miss Plastic Surgery
(Reuters)

China's first Miss Plastic Surgery
(Reuters) 12/19/2004 03:22 PM
Reuters - China has chosen its first Miss Artificial Beauty, giving the crown to a 22-year-old from the northeastern city of Jilin who couldn't have done it without the help of her plastic surgeon.

Egyptian Twins in U.S. to Start Plastic
Surgery

Egyptian Twins in U.S. to Start Plastic
Surgery 11/14/2003 05:15 PM
Reuters via Wired News Nov 14 2003 4:30PM ET

There She Is -- China's First Miss
Plastic Surgery (Reuters)

There She Is -- China's First Miss
Plastic Surgery (Reuters) 12/19/2004 03:22 PM
Reuters - China chose its first Miss Artificial Beauty, giving the crown to a 22-year-old from the northeastern city of Jilin who couldn't have done it without the help of her plastic surgeon.

Student Wins China Plastic-Surgery
Pageant (AP)

Student Wins China Plastic-Surgery
Pageant (AP) 12/19/2004 03:22 PM
AP - A 22-year-old student who has had cosmetic surgery on her eyelids and cheeks was crowned the winner Saturday of China's first pageant for such "manmade beauties."

Discovery Health Launches Plastic
Surgery Center

Discovery Health Launches Plastic
Surgery Center 06/16/2004 01:37 PM
Discovery Health Channel's new Plastic Surgery Center provides answers to all of your plastic surgery questions. Among the many features available on the new site is an interactive section where you can learn how these procedures are performed: Breast Augmentation, Breast Lift, Breast Reduction, Brow Lift, Chin Liposuction, Eye Lift, Face Lift, Tummy Tuck. The site features an audio Q and A with plastic surgeon Jan Adams, who covers everything from common procedures to custom designing to alternatives to going under the knife.

Livewire: the Good, Bad and Ugly -
Plastic Surgery Stories (Reuters)

Livewire: the Good, Bad and Ugly -
Plastic Surgery Stories (Reuters) 05/01/2004 07:51 AM
Reuters - The Internet can't make you beautiful, but it does cater to a host of vanities, from the search for the perfect eye shadow to the ultimate makeover, plastic surgery.

China to hold Miss Plastic Surgery
pageant (Reuters)

China to hold Miss Plastic Surgery
pageant (Reuters) 08/03/2004 02:12 AM
Reuters - BEIJING (Reuters)- China is giving the beauty pageant a surgical makeover with plans to anoint its first Miss Plastic Surgery this October, state media say.

Something Awful

Something Awful 08/12/2004 02:35 AM
Something Awful lists their top ten worst rock stars .. Worst

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Portables at E3: From Interesting to
Awful

Portables at E3: From Interesting to
Awful 05/14/2004 04:35 PM

An Expectant Countdown Becomes an Awful
Dread

An Expectant Countdown Becomes an Awful
Dread 01/26/2004 07:34 PM
The first hint was the silence. No sonic boom reverberating through the Florida marsh, no scared herons and egrets lifting off.

The Awful Forums - My mother is insane
(~5M of photos)

The Awful Forums - My mother is insane
(~5M of photos) 02/19/2004 11:25 AM
My mother is insane .. inside the house .. as fotos .. worse .. !!!

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" The Awful Forums - My mother is insane
(~5M of photos)"

" The Awful Forums - My mother is insane
(~5M of photos)" 02/10/2004 02:52 AM

$40 billion on the the Armed Forces?
Doesn't that seem like an awful lot of
money?

$40 billion on the the Armed Forces?
Doesn't that seem like an awful lot of
money? 01/28/2004 05:10 AM
Ben of Ben & Jerry fixes world problems with cookies .. Check it out .. fun!

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The Awful Forums - Homegrown PVC
flamethrower (56k image heavy)

The Awful Forums - Homegrown PVC
flamethrower (56k image heavy) 07/01/2004 05:38 AM
home made flame thrower out of PVC pipe .. Look at this clean-cut boy next door .. a ridiculous flamethrower .. goes horribly wrong .. Ooooookayyyy

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BeldarBlog: Kranish book makes awful
first impression

BeldarBlog: Kranish book makes awful
first impression 09/05/2004 09:24 AM
first impressions .. severely wounded .. Beldar

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Fashion Forward Nokia 6600 in Awful
Movie

Fashion Forward Nokia 6600 in Awful
Movie 09/09/2004 11:12 AM

I didn't really want to see that new movie "Cellular" before, but after hearing that it's about "getting [viewers] to identify with the frustrations of the police officer as he attempts to track down and rescue Ms. Basinger" using a crappy Nokia cellphone, I sort of started thinking that was maybe a little too close to real life to want to have to experience vicariously. The portrayal of cellular service - including the customer service - is apparently so awful in the movie that none of the American carriers approached allowed their service to be used in the film. I wonder if Kim Basinger sort of freaks out in the movie and twitches a lot like she does in real life? I would maybe pay to watch that.

Read - Nokia Goes Hollywood [Yahoo (Motley Fool)]

Sony VAIO U50 Review: Awful Laptop,
Great PDA

Sony VAIO U50 Review: Awful Laptop,
Great PDA 06/28/2004 09:35 PM

It catches eyes, that's for sure. I had forgotten to load the Sony VAIO U50 with any software before our flight home to Kansas City for the weekend, but since an unexpected storm front was blowing in from the north, we had almost two hours to kill while our plane sat, stranded on the tarmac of LaGuardia. Even scrolling through empty file systems was better than the airline magazine.

"Excuse me," said the man sitting next to me, and I turned too fast to respond, because I knew he had been staring. "What exactly is that thing, and can you play Spider Solitaire on it?"

Read the rest of my review after the jump.

Sony's Librie e-book reader: great
display, awful DRM

Sony's Librie e-book reader: great
display, awful DRM 07/02/2004 01:11 PM
Yuri Kageyama writes a glowing review of Sony's new ebook reader, which uses a new kind of display technology that rivals paper.I agree with Kageyama's assessment about the display technology. I played with a Librie when I was in Tokyo last month. The screen is remarkable. The display uses little balls that are painted black and white, containing the same pigments found in laser printer toner cartridges for black, and in sunblock and paint for white. Once you turn on the display and a page of text or graphics appear, it doesn't need refreshing. The only time the batteries get used is when you load a new page. (The technology was developed by a U.S. company, E-Ink.) I did notice that sometimes you could see the ghost of the previous page, especially on model I tried that had a comic book loaded on it. I wonder if that's a general problem, or if the one I played with was a dud?

I didn't Kageyama wasn't harsh enough about the hideous proprietary locked format the Librie uses for books. He wrote, "I'm not wild about buying books that self-destruct after 60 days." This self-destruct feature is sickening. Who would buy a Librie with this deadly defect built in? (Sony is making a similar mistake with its music players.) I hope somebody with a sensible DRM policy starts using these great display screens. Link

"Walt Whitman was an awful child
molester who was born in ancient Hong
Kong"

"Walt Whitman was an awful child
molester who was born in ancient Hong
Kong" 04/25/2004 09:41 AM

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""Walt Whitman was an awful child
molester who was born in ancient Hong
Kong""

""Walt Whitman was an awful child
molester who was born in ancient Hong
Kong"" 04/26/2004 08:54 AM

"Plastic"

"Plastic" 12/19/2003 11:55 AM

Plastic Mplayer 1.1.1

Plastic Mplayer 1.1.1 03/16/2003 01:47 AM
A remote control-like skin with a plastic feeling.

Plastic Algue

Plastic Algue 09/08/2004 10:24 AM

This Algue wall covering isn't organic - it's only inspired by algae, not made from it. Each 12-inch by 8-inch plastic piece clips to the next in a variety of ways, allowing you to create a flowing, natural divider between rooms or to break up the starkness of a blank wall. They aren't even that expensive - $200 for 50 pieces at the showroom.

As is typical for fancy, avant garde home decorating items, a briny shanty smell is not included.

Read - Algue [MoCoLoCo]

Clear Plastic Raincoats

Clear Plastic Raincoats 07/30/2004 01:15 AM
The eBay API BoF tonight was dominated by a guy who sells clear plastic raincoats via eBay. It's always funny when one person basically dominates a discussion with tons of questions, but it's even more amusing when it's someone selling clear plastic raincoats. Do the guy a favor--go buy a clear plastic raincoat on eBay....

Drowning in an Ocean of Plastic

Drowning in an Ocean of Plastic 06/05/2004 05:42 AM
Today's World Environment Day focuses on the state of the seas. One of the biggest concerns is plastic -- it's everywhere, from the surface to the innards of plankton. By Stephen Leahy.

Plastic Muscles Get Stronger

Plastic Muscles Get Stronger 03/08/2004 11:16 PM
Wired has an article talking about how electroactive polymers (EAPs) have gotten stronger and longer lasting. EAPs have gotten strong enough to have a practical self contained robot (NiTi never has gotten this strong). These muscles rival motors in that they're very quiet and very strong and now long lasting enough to use as fans in computers. EAPs can expand to 5 times their size, a feat unproducible by piezoelectric materials. Of course these new EAPs have the Navy's attention. Look for plastic muscles in your robot's future!?

Plastic that changes shape with light

Plastic that changes shape with light 04/14/2005 03:48 PM
David Pescovitz: Shape memory alloy, materials that change shape based on a temperature increase, are old news for roboticists. But MIT scientists have developed a new plastic that shapeshifts in response to light. From the MIT News Office:

These programmed materials change shape when struck by light at certain wavelengths and return to their original shapes when exposed to light of specific different wavelengths.

The discovery, to be reported in the April 14 issue of Nature, could have potential applications in a variety of fields, including minimally invasive surgery. Imagine, for example, a "string" of plastic that a doctor could thread into the body through a tiny incision. When activated by light via a fiber-optic probe, that slender string might change into a corkscrew-shaped stent for keeping blood vessels open.

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Plastic "Perks" That Should Be Free

Plastic "Perks" That Should Be Free 07/14/2004 08:12 AM
Keep your money in your wallet when your lender tries to sell you these five "extras."

If Plastic Discs Are Dead, What's Next?

If Plastic Discs Are Dead, What's Next? 03/22/2005 05:03 PM
Wired Magazine is now suggesting that discs are dead as a storage medium. With all the battling going on over the next generation of DVD technology, Wired's products editor, Robert Capps, notes that not very many people seem to care about the new "high definition" audio CDs that have come out. Instead, everyone's focused on getting an iPod and digitizing their music. While video is definitely more difficult to transport via the internet, the argument is that the technology is improving for compressing and transmitting larger files. Of course, it might be interesting to put Capps in a debate with Mark Cuban -- who also thinks that discs are dead, but that portable hard drives or flash drives will take their place. Cuban's argument is that "storage is expanding far more quickly than upload or download speeds to our homes," so it's going to be more efficient to move around hard drives than bits of high definition content. With some already experimenting with offer ing content on iPods, it is beginning to look like this battle for the next plastic disc technology may be a waste of time. Update: Then again, some analysts think discs will be big business for the next five years. Of course, analysts always seem to be overly positive in their predictions -- it's what helps sell reports.

The Plastic File System 1.9

The Plastic File System 1.9 07/06/2004 06:45 AM
A module for providing virtual file systems in user space.

Green Electrochromic Plastic

Green Electrochromic Plastic 05/20/2004 09:55 AM
It's slim on details, but Technology Review mentions a breakthrough technique by University of California at Los Angeles researchers that allows an electrochromic polymer to change from brownish-yellow to green when current is run through it. Since they've already managed...

Plastic That Changes Shape In Light

Plastic That Changes Shape In Light 04/15/2005 06:16 PM

It's Plastic Only for USS Truman Sailors
(AP)

It's Plastic Only for USS Truman Sailors
(AP) 07/27/2004 11:09 AM
AP - There's no point asking sailors aboard the USS Harry S. Truman for some cash. They don't need to have any.

Plastic magnet breaks the mold

Plastic magnet breaks the mold 09/01/2004 05:37 PM
Researchers in England have made the first magnet made of plastic that works at room temperatures.

Plastic Surgeon Sucks Out Own Fat Cells
(AP)

Plastic Surgeon Sucks Out Own Fat Cells
(AP) 08/27/2004 05:39 PM
AP - Calling himself the biggest fat sucker in Texas, a plastic surgeon performed liposuction on himself in full view of television and newspaper cameras to promote the potential use of stem cells that can be harvested in such an operation.
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COMING INTO FOCUS / A look at one failed
surgery and how new LASIK technology
might fix such mistakes

COMING INTO FOCUS / A look at one failed
surgery and how new LASIK technology
might fix such mistakes 11/11/2003 04:42 AM
Read this story before getting the LASIK eye procedure .. not going to have LASIK surgery .. they're still a little blurry .. failure and risks of LASIK

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Hope in breast cancer surgery

Hope in breast cancer surgery 06/04/2004 12:48 AM
A technique developed by a Cardiff research team could lessen the side effects of breast cancer surgery.

Radiation Is Questioned in Breast Cancer
Surgery After Age 70

Radiation Is Questioned in Breast Cancer
Surgery After Age 70 09/02/2004 02:04 AM
Radiation treatments routinely given after surgery to remove small breast tumors may not be necessary for women over age 70 if they are taking the cancer drug tamoxifen.

Outcomes: Choosing Breast Cancer Surgery

Outcomes: Choosing Breast Cancer Surgery 06/14/2004 09:32 PM
Why are so many mastectomies performed, when less invasive lumpectomies are often an alternative? A new study reports that part of the answer may lie with the patients.

Conn. Governor Has Breast-Cancer Surgery
(AP)

Conn. Governor Has Breast-Cancer Surgery
(AP) 12/27/2004 05:32 PM
AP - Gov. M. Jodi Rell underwent breast-cancer surgery Monday after doctors discovered the disease in its very early stages, the governor's office said. Rell, 58, was expected to be hospitalized for about three days at Danbury Hospital, officials said.

Connecticut Governor Has Surgery for
Breast Cancer

Connecticut Governor Has Surgery for
Breast Cancer 12/27/2004 03:07 PM
A statement posted on Gov. M. Jodi Rell's Web site described the cancer as having been caught "in its very early stages," and said it had not spread.

Face surgery research unit opens

Face surgery research unit opens 06/09/2004 06:59 PM
The world's first clinical research centre devoted to facial surgery is opening in London on Thursday.

Clinton Hospitalized With Chest Pains
and Will Face Surgery

Clinton Hospitalized With Chest Pains
and Will Face Surgery 09/03/2004 02:27 PM
Former President Bill Clinton today checked himself into New York Presbyterian Hospital where he will undergo heart bypass surgery, possibly on Saturday, after complaining of shortness of breath and chest pains, his office said.

surgery

surgery 11/13/2003 01:43 PM
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Silicon Surgery

Silicon Surgery 08/10/2004 05:37 AM

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Free registration is required to read the article. “Almost 15 years ago, Richard Livengood, a researcher for Intel, used an exotic machine known as a focused ion beam to painstakingly deposit a missing wire on the surface of a 486-microprocessor chip. The chip was then placed into a personal computer, which, to the astonishment of Mr. Livengood and a small group of Intel engineers, booted Microsoft’s Windows operating system without a hitch. The technique, now…

Surgery without a cut to the skin

Surgery without a cut to the skin 07/07/2004 07:39 PM
A new technique might allow surgeons to operate on internal organs without making any cuts in the skin, say researchers.

Will You Be Having Chips With That
Surgery?

Will You Be Having Chips With That
Surgery? 08/23/2004 12:26 PM

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Idea of implanting ID tags raises Orwellian fears There’s not a lot of middle ground on the subject of implanting electronic identification chips in humans. Advocates of technologies like radio frequency identification tags say their potentially life-saving benefits far outweigh any Orwellian concerns about privacy. RFID tags sewn into clothing or even embedded under people’s skin could curb identity theft, help identify disaster victims and improve medical care, they say. Critics, however, say such technologies…

Surgery April 12

Surgery April 12 04/10/2004 12:50 PM

On April 12 I'm scheduled for anterior cervical decompression and fusion. As nervous as I am about the surgery, I'm actually looking forward to it. I've been in pain for close to two months now, and recently it has become almost unbearable, so I'm glad relief is coming soon. Although I've felt worse pain before (for example, I once had stitches in my head without anesthesia, which kinda' stung), this is the first (and hopefully last) time I've experienced chronic pain, and it really consumes your life.

It will be a few weeks before I'll fully return to work, but I should be able to handle light typing within a few days. In the meantime, I plan to recover by eating several buckets of ice cream and finally watching every DVD I've ordered from Amazon.com but never had time to watch :)

Ouch. Looks like I need surgery.

Ouch. Looks like I need surgery. 04/09/2004 04:03 PM

This morning I had separate visits with a physiatrist and a neorosurgeon, and both are recommending that I undergo surgery as soon as possible. Apparently, my cervi cal disk herniation is worse than I thought, and the pinched nerve is causing muscle atrophy and weakness in my arm. Left unchecked, it could result in permanent damage.

I'm still researching my options, but I'm fairly certain that surgery is in my future, possibly as early as next week. Man, it's hard to believe that a few weeks ago I was enjoying running 8-10 miles at a time, and now I'm flat on my back looking at surgery.

Surgery Redux

Surgery Redux 12/07/2003 09:24 AM

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Choices, Before Surgery

Choices, Before Surgery 01/26/2004 07:34 PM
Many women are in the prime of life when they have a hysterectomy, the authors of this valuable reference guide point out.

Beams cut need for surgery

Beams cut need for surgery 02/16/2004 07:12 AM
Scientists are perfecting a 'virtual scalpel' which uses ultrasound beams to kill cancer cells without the need for surgery.

Rotator cuff surgery

Rotator cuff surgery 06/12/2004 09:54 PM
This surgical video is not for the faint of heart, but it is fascinating to watch that little, whirling blade flense away all that frayed tendon and bone. As the possessor of some remarkably cranky back bits, this video compells me -- it would be so boss to just have someone jam some fiber optics and a Dremel tool into my shoulder and just grind off all the troublesome tissue.

About 9 years ago my dad was needing some relief from persistent shoulder pain. After the fun and joys of X-rays and MRI's he elected to have surgery to correct a bone spur that had literally torn the innards of his rotator cuff apart.

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Awful Plastic Surgery

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